Dr. James B. Maple was a local doctor and historian who in his spare time researched early Vincennes and Sullivan newspapers for items concerning Sullivan Co. He clipped items and took notes and filled 42 volumes of scrapbooks which have a...

Sepia toned photograph of a newspaper clipping on a post card. The photograph shows the "New Home of Vigo Auto Co." a three story building with three bays on the first level. There are additional headlines on the image. The clipping is from the...

Esther Hollingsworth is a long-time resident of the coal mining community of Universal, Indiana. She was born in 1918 and married Ben Hollingsworth, a coal miner. She is also a gifted storyteller who can make the old days come alive. She and...

Scan of a newspaper article from the Terre Haute Tribune. The newspaper article, titled “Survivors Tell Terror Tale Of Hours In Mine: Hope Almost Abandoned As Air Gives Out And Fire Bars Way; Prayers Of 19 Men Finally Answered”, covers a mine...

Copy of letter from Theodore Debs, 10/11/1944. Tells Stone that he will read the review of IMMORTAL WIFE with carefully once he receives it. Writes that he spent yesterday going through some of Eugene V. Debs' old letters from 1874 when Eugene V....

Letter to Theodore Debs, 10/21/1944. Says that the Socialist Party honored Eugene V. Debs last night on the 18th anniversary since his death. Writes that he cannot believe that it has been almost a quarter of a century since he first met Eugene...

Letter to Eugene V. Debs, 4/?/21. Writes that he would like Eugene V. Debs to come to Bronx, New York to "see the beaming faces of the boys and girls." Mentions that the May Day festival there will be the greatest one ever held. Tells Eugene V....